Press Releases

Education

• New York State Senate Passes Dignity for All Students Act (6-23-10)

Identity Documents

• Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Applauds New State Department Policy on Passport Gender Changes (6-10-10)
• New York Appellate Court Strikes Down “Doctor’s Note” Requirement for Transgender Name Changes (10-21-09)
• Transgender Advocacy Group Challenges "Doctor's Note" Requirement in Transgender Name Change Petitions (5-11-09)

Other topics

• Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Welcomes Noah Lewis as Staff Attorney (2-1-10)
• Transgender Advocacy Group Hails U.S. House Passage of Hate Crimes Legislation (4-29-09)
• Transgender Advocacy Group Applauds Hate Crimes Conviction in Murder of Angie Zapata (4-23-09)

Employment

• Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Hails Governor Paterson's Signing Tomorrow of Executive Order Barring Discrimination Against Transgender State Employees (12-15-09)
• Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Hails House Introduction of Employment Non-Discrimination Act (6-24-09)

Zikerria Bellamy

• Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Files Employment Discrimination Complaint with Florida Commission on Human Relations Against McDonald's for Refusing to Hire Transgender Woman (12-7-09)

Leslie Mora

• Queens County Grand Jury Indicts Two on Hate Crime Charges in Brutal Beating of Transgender Woman (11-24-09)
• Transgender Woman Brutally Beaten in Queens Bias Attack (6-30-09)
• Transgender Woman Brutally Beaten in Queens Bias Attack – Press Conference Scheduled for Tuesday, 6/30/09 at 3 pm on Steps of City Hall (6-29-09)

Lateisha Green

• Community Forum Planned on Transgender Hate Crimes (10-5-09)
• TLDEF Statement on Sentencing in Lateisha Green Trial (8-18-09)
• TLDEF Statement On Verdict In Lateisha Green Trial (7-17-09)

Access to health care

• Transgender Rights Group to Hold Third Annual Transgender Health Fair (6-1-09)
• Transgender Advocacy Group Praises President Obama's Move to Rescind Harmful Bush Administration Health Care Regulation (3-3-09)
• Transgender Advocacy Group Assails Bush Administration's Harmful Last-Minute Health Care Regulation (12-22-08)

Family

• Transgender Advocacy Group Applauds Barbara Walters' Feature On Thomas Beatie (11-15-08)

Khadijah Farmer v. Caliente Cab Company

• Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Settles Lawsuit Against West Village Restaurant That Ejected Lesbian Customer After Gay Pride March (5-13-08)
• Transgender Rights Group to Hold Press Conference to Announce Settlement of Lawsuit Against West Village Restaurant that Ejected Lesbian Patron After Gay Pride March (5-12-08)
• Transgender Rights Organization to Hold Press Conference Outside West Village Restaurant that Ejected Lesbian Patron after Gay Pride March (7-2-07)